J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River, with Distant Hills ?near Farnley Hall c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River, with Distant Hills ?near Farnley Hall’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
River, with Distant Hills ?near Farnley Hall c.1824
D18382
Turner Bequest CCX 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[Smith &] Allnutt | [18]22’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘44’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Previously unidentified, this slight and fluidly rendered sketch most likely depicts the countryside near Farnely Hall, the Yorkshire estate of Turner’s friend Sir Walter Fawkes (see Tate D18478; Turner Bequest CCX 93a). Turner visited Fawkes in November and December of 1824. Similar landscape is depicted on Tate D18281, D18383; Turner Bequest CCX 43a, 44 55. The subject may be the Washburn Valley or Wharfedale (see Tate D09792, D10402–D10407, D11983, D11996–D12016, D12120; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 3, CXXXIX 38a–41, CLII 9, CLIII 1a–13, CLIV V).
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Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River, with Distant Hills ?near Farnley Hall c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-with-distant-hills-near-farnley-hall-r1181269, accessed 10 May 2024.